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The Committee for Protection of Journalists said 2024 is the most dangerous year so far for journalists, with 124 killed by media workers.
A record number of journalists were killed in 2024 with Israel responsible for more than two -thirds From these deaths, the Committee for Protection of Journalists (CPJ) said in its annual report.
Announcing its findings on Wednesday, CPJ said at least 124 journalists had been killed in 18 countries last year, in what it was The most rumored year for media workers As the Committee began to record more than three decades ago.
The previous dead year for media workers was 2007, when 113 journalists were killed, with almost half of those due to the Iraq war, the print freedom group reported.
“Today is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in the history of CPJ,” said Commission Chief Jody Ginsberg in the statement.
“The Gaza War is unprecedented in its impact on journalists and demonstrates a great deterioration in global standards for the protection of journalists in the conflict areas, but this is far from the only place where journalists are in danger,” she said.
At least 85 journalists were killed in 2024 in the hands of Israeli military during the Israeli war against Gaza, CPJ said, with 82 of the people killed.
The intercession group also accused Israel of attempted investigations In the killings, transfer the blame to journalists for your own death and neglecting your obligation to hold your own serviceman responsible for the killings of so many media workers.
Sudan and Pakistan have identified CPJ as a joint second most domestic state -of -the -law for media workers last year, with six journalists killed in everyone.
He also said that at least 24 journalists were deliberately killed for their work, what he described as an “anxious increase in the number of target killings”.
CPJ said 10 journalists were “killed” by the Israeli military in Gaza and Lebanon, while the 14 other journalists were killed in Haiti, Mexico, Pakistan, Myanmar, Mozambique, India, Iraq and Sudan.
The group said freelance journalists represent 43 deaths – more than 35 percent of the total last year – with 31 of these cases being Palestinians reporting Gaza.
“International media are still banned from reporting from the occupied Palestinian territory, with the exception of rare and accompanied trips organized by Israeli military,” said CPJ, emphasizing the essential work of freelancers in the besieged enclave.
“CPJ repeatedly advocates for Israel and Egypt to open access and repeat this call as part of the continued cessation of fire,” he adds.
The Israeli military killed several Al Jazee journalists covering the Gaza war since October 2023.
Among the killed were an Arab journalist from Al Jazeera Ismail al-gul And its operator Rami Al Rifi, who died on July 31, 2024, when the Israeli forces bombed their car at the Shatti refugee camp west of Gaza.
The Israeli authorities refused to deliberately target the couple, as well as other journalists in Gaza.
In a statement, Al Jazeera's media network refers to the murders of “purposeful murder” and promised to “pursue all legal action to pursue the perpetrators of these crimes.”
Israel's attacks on Palestinian journalists also continued in 2025, with reporter Ahmad al -Shaya among six killed in drones at a charity facility in Khan Eunice, South Gaza, on January 15th.
